Former President Donald Trump has been undermining his 2024 bid through a series of self-inflicted political wounds suffered both before and since launching his campaign, doing for his opponents inside the Republican establishment what they are powerless to do themselves.

Trump announced his White House bid Nov. 15, only to see his poll numbers drop precipitously versus Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in a hypothetical matchup in the Republican presidential primary. The reasons behind the former president’s fall are many: legal setbacks, political failures, and politically charged statements, mostly uttered via Truth Social, the Twitter-like social media platform he founded, to name a few. Yet all are the fault of a shared culprit: Trump.

“The so-called GOP establishment and even the other presidential primary candidates really don’t need to take on Trump. He’s self-destructing all on his own,” said Jim Dornan, a Republican operative in Washington often critical of the 45th president.

Trump’s Republican critics are not the only conservatives questioning his political future.

After the former president this month teased a “major announcement” that ended up being the sale of digital NFT trading cards featuring himself photoshopped into different costumes, exasperated Trump ally Steve Bannon declared, “I can’t do this anymore.” Bannon, a leading conservative populist who served as a top official in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and in the Trump White House, made the comments on his War Room podcast.